Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 180 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.
- nurse
- world war i
- africa
- world war ii
- feminism
- bigamy
- sahara desert
- love
- revenge
- slaughter
The bill
Gérard Depardieu
Charles Saganne
Philippe Noiret
Dubreuilh
Catherine Deneuve
Louise
Sophie Marceau
Madeleine
- Michel Duchaussoy — Baculard
- Jean-Laurent Cochet — Bertozza
- Roger Dumas — Vulpi
- Jean-Louis Richard — Flammarin
- Robin Renucci — Hazan
- Sophie Grimaldi — Mère de Madeleine
- Hippolyte Girardot — Courette
- Saïd Amadis — Amajar
- Florent Pagny — Lucien
- Tatiana Vialle — Jeanne
- Directed
- Alain Corneau
- Written
- Louis Gardel, Henri de Turenne, Alain Corneau
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 68 ratings
- Studio
- SFP, Albina Productions, Films A2
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
